Important Tips For Driving In Winter Season! Prepare Your Car And Equipment

Important Tips For Driving In Winter Season! Prepare Your Car And Equipment

Extreme weather could be both scary and threatening for car travel. Drivers must know the safety rules for coping with winter road emergencies. AAA reminds drivers to be aware when driving a car in difficult weather. The ideal recommendation for driving in bad winter weather is not to drive at all, if you are able to avoid it.

Winter driving gives you a lot of problems to both you and your car. Winter season tests the limits of your car's mechanical functionality. Treacherous driving circumstances evaluate your competencies as a driver. Driving in the winter season - snow, ice, wet and cold - produces an excellent challenge for cars and drivers. Having your car in excellent technical repair lowers the overall risks for almost any accident or disaster while driving - especially in winter weather.

It's recommended that you have your car completely maintained before winter begins with the anti-freeze examined. In case you can't have it serviced, then simply do your own inspections. Especially, look at:

•  Lights are clear and functioning

• Battery is totally charged

• Windscreen, wiper blades as well as other windows are clean and the washer pack full of screen wash

• Tyre condition, tread depth and pressure ( of all the tyres, as well as the spare )

• Brakes are functioning properly

• Fluids are kept topped up, particularly windscreen wash (to the right concentration to stop it freezing), anti-freeze and oil

Have winter car equipment that will help in the event of an emergency. You easily will provide your car with important equipment for winter. Here's what you'll require:

• Booster cables

• A couple of blankets

• Snow shovel and scraper

• Flashlight and additional batteries

• Additional clothing: cap, mittens, parka and overshoes or boots if you do have to walk for help.

• High calorie, non-perishable food such as candy and also canned nuts.

• Sand or strips of carpet for traction.

• Additional windshield washer fluid and antifreeze

• Flares or reflectors

• Cloth/paper towels

• Piece of bright cloth

Remove the snow and ice before driving a car. In case snow has dropped when your car was parked, take some time to carefully clean it off the car--such as the roof--and scrape all ice out of the windows. "Peephole driving" over a tiny, cleared area on your windshield limits your vision and is very risky.

Be familiar with your track and always keep updated of weather conditions. The Internet can be perfect source of current weather details. Create a list of Department of Transportation road-condition hotlines and talk to them each couple of hours when you’re traveling. Spend specific attention to avalanche situations along your direction, since short-term road closures are frequent in mountain locations.